The estate was once featured in Architectural Digest in 1976 — along with an interview with Capote. At the time, the home was described as being “hidden behind scrub pine, privet hedges and rows of hydrangea bushes.”

Capote once described the area, Sagaponack, as “Kansas with a sea breeze.” He loved to write there.

At the time, the article described a dirt lane that leads to the home as being “first opened back in 1670.”

Incredibly, the home still holds a quiet, working, untouched grace that is unusual in this era of showy opulence and megamansions on the East End.

“You can see how quiet it is here because you can barely see the top of another house. This is a place to be alone,” Capote said in the interview.